One thing about teaching in the upper grades if you do, or say, something off-beat they tend to remember it. Even if it is completely unintentionally off-beat, or strange, or quirky, or weird, they’ll
I have found that even 5th graders still seem to struggle with equation vocabulary: Product, sum, difference, etc. So, I made Parts of an Equation which contains a fold-up for addition, subtraction, multiplication and
Later in our chapter on decimals we will work on how to change a decimal to a fraction. At that time, we will use the following foldable as a resource: (cover, inside, assembled–3 foldables
I created a new foldable for my classroom this weekend. It defines and shows examples of finding mean, median, mode, range, minimum value and maximum value. Front side… Back side… Folded up… Cut on
The new Common Core Standards promote teaching students a variety of ways to solve a problem. Using the various properties of math are utilized a great deal. Most of my students catch on to
I keep plugging along with Common Core math. It is really quite amazing how different the curriculum is compared to what we had previously taught in 5th grade in our state. I am, however,